Hazard Exposure & Uncontained Harm

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People, assets, communities, or environments are exposed to harmful forces, leakage, contamination, abuse, or propagation beyond safe bounds.

This problem family contains 14 solution archetypes and 136 mechanisms. Choose a more specific problem pattern below; each subfamily page drills into the mechanisms inherited from its archetypes. Click a column header to sort.

Problem subfamily	Mechanisms	Archetypes	Description
Cumulative & Concentrated Exposure	30	2	Small per-event risk, exaggerated cues, or co-located vulnerabilities create material harm that averages and isolated assessments conceal.
Layered-Defense Gap Alignment	37	3	Safeguards appear adequate in isolation but share decisive weaknesses or align into a complete route from initiating condition to unacceptable harm.
Persistent Source & Hazardous Circulation	18	2	A harmful population, capability, substance, or transformation remains active, available, or in a protected reservoir and can repeatedly regenerate exposure.
Source–Pathway–Receptor Propagation	24	4	A harmful source or contaminating fraction can reach new targets through migration, transfer, diffusion, or establishment pathways that controls do not see or sever.
Unbounded Risky & Impaired Operation	27	3	Useful but hazardous activity has direct access to the live system, or a fault leaves the system active without a restricted state that contains consequences and supports diagnosis.